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- In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either…
- I do verily believe that if the principle were to prevail of a common law being in force in the United States (which principle possesses…
- Where the principle of difference [between political parties] is as substantial and as strongly pronounced as between the republicans and the monocrats of our country,…
- Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may again…
- I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt;…
- Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would be as worthy…
- The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.
- Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
- Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
- It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars…
- In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to…
- Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
- If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
- I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under…
- not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of…
- A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their…
- But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.
- Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the…
- On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling, fighting,…
- The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.
- A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of…
- God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.
- We are endeavoring, too, to reduce the government to the practice of a rigorous economy, to avoid burdening the people, and arming the magistrate with…
- Freedom of the person under the protection of habeas corpus. I deem one of the essential principles of our government.
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- The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius
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- Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. — Honore de Balzac
- The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award. — Javier Bardem
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- Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. — John Quincy Adams
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